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RASA
AFFECT AND INTUITION IN JAVANESE MUSICAL AESTHETICS |
| By: |
Marc Benamou |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£67.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195189434 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195189438 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
20 September, 2010 |
| Series: |
AMS Studies in Music |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa encompasses not only mood and intuition, but also theories of musical perception and cognition, as well as meaning and expression in music. |
| Synopsis: |
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the vocabulary of rasa structured, and what does this tell us about traditional Javanese music and aesthetics? In this first book on the subject, Rasa provides an entry into Javanese music as it is conceived by the people who know the tradition best: the musicians themselves. In one of the most thorough explorations of local aesthetics to date, author Marc Benamou argues that musical meaning is above all connotative - hence, not only learned, but learnable. Following several years performing and researching Javanese music in the regional and national cultural center of Solo, Indonesia, Benamou untangles the many meanings of rasa as an aesthetic criterion in Javanese music, particularly in court and court-derived gamelan traditions.While acknowledging that certain universal psychological tendencies may inspire parallel interpretations of musical meaning, Rasa demonstrates just how culturally specific such accrued, shared meanings can be. |
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9 black and white halftones, 38 line illustrations |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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